If you are not celebrating next Saturday

[CampsieGlamper]

Are you celebrating This weekend?
May day whether celebrating the pagan festival or the day dedicated to the Workers, international Labour and celebration of the labourers, sons and daughters of toil and the struggle for rights.
Prompted by a discussion with a friend - street parties to celebrate jubilee, coronation gets monarchists celebrating, but if you are in favour of a republic then why not celebrate and honour those whom a republic represents and acknowledge and celebrate The People? Or is is a case of being anti? Anti monarchy, anti establishment and not positive but merely Oppositional?

I will be doing what I usually do on a Saturday, volunteering at my local food bank.

Pretty poignant really. Our numbers are increasing every week and the royal family are so out of touch with reality that they're spending an obscene amount of money on the coronation of a deeply unpopular king, while millions of people are barely surviving day to day.
Nice.

Where I live we have a May day festival every year. The local high street is closed to traffic and there is a street market with charities and small independent businesses. My allotment site will be there selling plants and seedlings. The high street shops, pubs and cafes do a roaring trade.
We have an active Morris Men group who do the rounds and the Green Man shows up.
The local churches have fetes and the primary school opens the playground for kids activities. The library which is community run also has activties.
Its a fantastic community event.
Prior to the pandemic it was the end of a month long arts festival which will hopefully start to revive.
There were plans to have a street party for the Coronation but it would have meant street closures with no great benefit to the traders. Instead there is a Coronation picnic in the park.

Most of the shops have flags/ bunting already and I spotted some people out yesterday attaching stuff to railings and lamposts. It all looks rather jolly.

I'm going kayaking!

My village aren't celebrating. They went nuts for the jubilee but there was a survey sent out and it seems that less people are bothered by King Charles. People miss the Queen and others know they'll probably see another coronation.

@otherwayup
is he deeply unpopular though?

I really am no great monarchist, I woudnt go and wave a flag if any of the rocked up in my local community.
But I am capable of understanding that this is a state occasion, not simply a posh family having a party. If we had a president there would be some kind of state occasion every four or five years. This hasnt happened for 70 years, it probably won’t happen again for another 20.
Not having the coronation won’t resolve the funding crisis in our schools or the NHS or the need for your food bank, because thats about the ideology of the current government

I'd say yes, he seems very unpopular.
Granted, I only spend my time with lefties like me so maybe I've been lucky enough to avoid the royalists 😬

Why do we have to “celebrate” anything?

And no it wouldn't solve the nations problems but it would absolutely send the country a message to say that the royal family actually have an ounce of understanding/empathy.

Just going camping and hiking, nothing to do with monarchy, anarchy or any political system.

I’m off this weekend and working next Saturday.. not celebrating much!

We will be a couple of thousand miles away. It was booked pre coronation but thank god!! No interest

not celebrating no - I have nothing against Charles as a person. I feel very sorry for him actually, But he is not my king

Im picking up my new car....so very excited for that but I couldnt give 2 hoots about the coronation

Not celebrating this wknd or next. He’s not my king, and it’s an obscene amount of tax payers money to spend, particularly given the CoL situation. Wont be watching the shit show on tv or acknowledging the nonsense in any way.

I will be on a plane flying out of the U.K.

I am glad I won’t be here for all the nonsense.

It’s my birthday :) so I’ll be celebrating that. We have a restaurant booked in London (bringing a cake) so will be soaking up the atmosphere and will be making damn sure limelight is on me! Haha

Not "celebrating" anything, either this weekend or next. DD has a rare weekend off next week so I'm going to visit her for a couple of days, way more exciting than anything else going on.

It doesn't really occur to me to celebrate events like this tbh. It's just a day when everything is shut to me, not something I particular need to celebrate.

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I am certainly not a monarchist, but I also have no particular desire to celebrate 'the People'. The people are individuals and most of them are ok but they don't really need celebrating. I expect I'll go for a family dog walk, do a bit of knitting and do some work. I used to live in a place which had big May Day celebrations, which were lovely. I'd certainly go to that if we had it where I live now.

I will probably be pottering around in the garden after taking DDog out for a walk.
I definitely won’t be watching/celebrating/joining in with any form of celebration; I have zero interest in the whole shebang.

I remember May 1st being marked at infants school with maypole dancing (girls only took part), never celebrated May 1st since. With having family in France for a long while and suppliers in Europe, aware of the May 1st labour day celebrations though.

I even forgot Friday was Ed Balls Day.

Is this supposed to be some sort of clever 'gotcha' - that if you're not celebrating the monarchy you have to be celebrating the workers or you're 'oppositional'? Not sure I buy it if so. I won't be celebrating the coronation but neither will I piss on the chips of those who want to.

As a knackered 'worker' myself I'll probably be catching up with housework or family.

No I won’t be. Couldn’t be less interested.

I'm driving to Wales next Saturday and hoping the roads will be nice and empty with everyone staying in to watch it.

I always feel an inward cringe about these big royal events no matter what they are - weddings, jubilee's, funerals etc. not sure why. I think maybe because it feels like as a country we're trying to hold onto our glory days in some way? But the glory days (by which I mean days of empire/ world domination) are not much to be proud of!!

If that's people's bag though hope they enjoy it. I'll enjoy the bank holiday!

Won't be doing either. Long weekends are a chance to sit on my fat arse and catch up on a box set, play some computer games, read a book ( Alan Rickman) , have long, lazy sex after a long lazy lie in and generally have some down time... thinking of King and Country might be a bit of a turn off.🤣